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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? To tap this burgeoning market, companies should consider working with local partners who possess a more intimate knowledge of each market. They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce.

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How to Use Social Media for Market Research

ConversionXL

Social media isn’t a perfect source of market research: It’s not a representative sample and, for small businesses, it’s simply too small of a sample. Not all social media market research comes from active participation. So what are the primary methods of social media market research? But it’s not for everyone.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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What is The Best Way to Explain Your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

Between the US & Europe alone the video sector is worth around $500 billion. Think of the best tech company at marketing that you know. I don’t think it’s just a B2C marketing tool. Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. I’m guessing most of you would say Apple.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. and Amazon.fr). It has infiltrated the U.K.,

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Shiroube.com Finds Local Guides For Travelers

YoungUpstarts

“(There’s a) huge individual tourism market in Europe; (on the other hand) Japan has cheap costs and technology in engineering,&# he explains. Sato says the company plans to build a B2C marketplace on the current C2C model that helps local businesses, such as transport, hospitality, translation or food services.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We were it in Europe: B2B. Market, market, market.